#HowAPWouldReport World History

[shira]

After yesterday’s appalling terrorist attack in Jerusalem, which left a three-month-old girl dead, Associated Press ran a jaw-droppingly misleading headline: “ISRAELI POLICE SHOOT MAN IN EAST JERUSALEM”. (Yes, it did.) The headline was soon changed, but the URL retains the original wording. There could be no finer illustration of Matti Friedman’s provocative claim that AP forces its stories to fit its pre-determined narrative of Israeli villainy and Palestinian helplessness.

Within hours, Gidon Shaviv of CAMERA suggested an online game of Tweeting satirical news headlines, which Twitter user @JudgeDan48 got rolling with the hashtag: #HowAPWouldReport: how would AP report other news using the same distortive lens applied to Israel? As an example, he used the 2012 mass shooting at a cinema in Aurora, Colorado: “Aurora: Police arrest man in cinema”, he quipped.

Here are some of Twitter users’ best satirical AP headlines…

#HowAPWouldReport 9/11

4 American jetliners destroyed after struck by buildings, ground #HowAPWouldReport 9/11

— Judge Dan (@JudgeDan48) October 22, 2014

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http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/how-would-ap-report-history-howapwouldreport/#ixzz3H0DRfMxI

[shira]

1. cont'd from OP

#HowAPWouldReport The emancipation of the slaves

Lincoln Confiscates Property From Cotton Farmers #HowAPWouldReport

— Angry Bell (@Angrybell) October 22, 2014

#HowAPWouldReport The sinking of the Titanic

#BREAKING Iceberg destroyed after collision with ocean liner #HowAPWouldReport #Titanic

— Judge Dan (@JudgeDan48) October 22, 2014

#HowAPWouldReport The Blitz

London Buildings Fall Down Unexpectedly #howAPwouldreport the Blitz

— Tzvi Zucker (@TzviZucker) October 22, 2014

#HowAPWouldReport King Henry VIII beheads Queen Anne

"Anne Boleyn bangs head against blade of axe" #HowAPWouldReport

— Eylon Aslan-Levy (@EylonALevy) October 22, 2014

#HowAPWouldReport The flattening of Hiroshima

Complex atomic device badly damaged by Japanese city. #HowAPWouldReport

— M Zubarev-Foxworth (@rotorouter) October 22, 2014

#HowAPWouldReport The Normandy landings

Thousands of German soldiers reported killed after US, British & Canadian forces invade Normandy #HowAPWouldReport

— Joseph Melamed (@JpMelamed) October 23, 2014

#HowAPWouldReport The Lewinsky affair

Lack of dry cleaner open 24 hours a day leads to President Clinton's impeachment. #HowAPWouldReport

— Sergio Geralnik (@sgeralnik) October 23, 2014

#HowAPWouldReport The downing of MH17 over Ukraine

Malaysian Jetliner Obstructs Path Of Missile Over Eastern Ukraine #HowAPWouldReport

— PreOccupiedTerritory (@POTerritory) October 22, 2014

I wish it were a joke. But when a three-month-old baby is murdered in cold blood and the world’s foremost news sources think the subsequent shooting of the terrorist (“man”) is the most important feature of the story, the tears are not from laughter.

[shira]

2. Top 11 AP headlines in history

11. Titanic Assaults Iceberg

10. Princess Di Terrorizes Streets of Paris

9. Distant Moon Invaded by Colonizers

8. Crippled Jedi Attacked by Own Son

7. Scientists Ethnically Cleanse Polio

6. Noah Abducts Entire Animal Kingdom

5. John Lennon Drives Fan to Crime

4. President Kennedy Causes Traffic Jam

3. Twin Towers Delay Flights

2. Abraham Lincoln Interrupts Play

1. Yitzchak Rabin Ruins Peace Rally

Screw you, Associated Press. Report the news. Leave your biases out of it.

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http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/top-11-ap-headlines-in-history/#ixzz3H0FlPUUs

[azurnoir]

3. the title now reads:Palestinian kills baby at Jerusalem station

I found that by clicking the URL hyperlink in your OP and BTW in case you did not know it is quite common for news sources to retain the original link wording even when the title is changed, this is especially true for developing stories which this one was at the time of AP's first report-how do I know that because I've spent a considerable amount of time as forum host on DU mainly LBN where the thread title must match the article title and when investigating alerts over titles not matching have found such stuff is quite common among all news organizations not just AP

[Scootaloo]

4. Oh, a ToI blog post. I'm sure I will find valuable information here

After all, why else would Shira have posted it?